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Reid-White-Philbin House was constructed in 1821 for Samuel McDowell Reid, clerk of the Rockbridge County Court in Lexington, and the trustee of Washington College responsible for transformation of the central campus into a harmonious Greek Revival ensemble. Reid designed the substantial brick Federal-style house with an Ionic entry porch and Federal- and Georgian-inspired mantels. His surviving watercolor elevation and section drawings for the house provide a rare testament to the accomplishments of an antebellum Virginia “gentleman architect” After Reid’s death, the property passed to his daughter Mary Louise White, wife of Washington and Lee classics professor James Jones White.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
